[jira] Commented: (LUCENE-2380) Add FieldCache.getTermBytes, to load term data as byte[]

["Uwe Schindler (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Uwe Schindler commented on LUCENE-2380:
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The structure should look like String and StringIndex, but I am not sure, if we need real BytesRefs. In my opinion, it should be an array of byte[], where each byte[] is allocated with the termsize from the enums BytesRef and copied over - this is. This is no problem, as the terms need to be replicated either way, as the BytesRef from the enum is reused. The only problem is that byte[] is mising the cool bytesref methods like utf8ToString() that may be needed by consumers.

getStrings and getStringIndex should be deprecated. We cannot emulate them using BytesRef.utf8ToString, as the String[] arrays are raw and allow no wrapping. If FieldCache would use accessor methods and not raw arrays, we would not have that problem...

> Add FieldCache.getTermBytes, to load term data as byte[]
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>                 Key: LUCENE-2380
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2380
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Michael McCandless
>             Fix For: 3.1
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> With flex, a term is now an opaque byte[] (typically, utf8 encoded unicode string, but not necessarily), so we need to push this up the search stack.
> FieldCache now has getStrings and getStringIndex; we need corresponding methods to load terms as native byte[], since in general they may not be representable as String.  This should be quite a bit more RAM efficient too, for US ascii content since each character would then use 1 byte not 2.

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